Machine Learning Engineer

Job Req ID: ‎1808
Description:
Aramco energizes the world economy.
Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the
world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest
upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.
With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to
maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a
commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.
Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the
world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the
future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the
Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to
deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom,
but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely
on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.
We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst
the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Job Purpose

Aramco Artificial Intelligence (AI) organization is responsible for providing
AI-powered solutions to various business functions within Aramco. The
solutions leverage the latest technological advancements of (AI) and analytics
to create business values across the value chain. Aramco.AI division is the
center of excellence in Saudi Aramco for Artificial Intelligence technologies
and data science.
The Machine Learning Engineer primary role is to work closely with business
functions, stakeholders, and functional teams to give consultations on AI use
case assessments, identify potential value from data, formulate AI ideas and
conceptualize them. In addition, building, evaluating and productionalizing
models as appropriate.

Responsibilities

You will be required to perform the following:
* Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions
* Analyze data from company data sources to drive optimization and improvement of product development, and business strategies.
* Develop backend services and restful APIs to interface with machine learning models
* Use MLOPS concepts and tools to monitor, optimize, improve, deploy machine learning models
* Develop CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and development of machine learning models
* Develop custom data models and algorithms as needed and appropriate to address problems at hand
* Develop A/B testing mechanisms and test model quality and value, and validate hypothesis accordingly.
* Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
* Develop necessary documentation as per established standards.

Education & Experience Requirements

As a successful candidate you will:
* Hold a Master's degree in Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Applied mathematics or a related field from a recognized and approved program. A PhD degree is preferred.
* Have at least ‎5 years of experience in building AI-based product.
* You must be fluent in Python and Machine Learning tools and libraries
* You are able to apply transfer learning on models.
* You are able to build software development, backend, services, APIs expertise.
* Proficiency in deep learning tools Keras, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Caffe, etc. is necessary
* You must also be able to bring ideas from conceptualization to productionalization (putting models in production) using the right tools.
* You are able to package and deploy front end and back end applications using docker, Kubernetes, etc.
* Strong knowledge of using data version control systems and CI/CD.
* Having good knowledge in data flow and data pipelining tools such as airflow, Kafka.
* Strong expertise in MLOPS tools such as MLflow, weights and biases, tensor board, etc.
* Proficiency in visualization tools and packages; as well as being able to communicate machine learning topics to non-technical audience is a requirement.
Working environment
Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding
professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are
remunerated accordingly.
At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by
investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a
global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's
biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily
in talent development.
We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many
decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-
specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs
- one of the largest in the world.

Country/Region: SA